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I don't really think using lite engine is that much easier than just building your own backend and hosting on AWS? Some of the library utilities you guys have a

by ruler88 10y ago

I don't really think using lite engine is that much easier than just building your own backend and hosting on AWS? Some of the library utilities you guys have are pretty cool and convenient. But there are lots of open source libraries that do much the same thing. I'm not sure where the target audience would be. People who can code don't like the restriction, people who can't code will not be able to set this up.

marktangotango 10y ago
One slogan I've thinking about is "Develop websites, don't waste your time admining servers". Me personally, I've been coding professionally for a long time, I have always had lots of ideas, but the last thing I want to do with my limited free time is setup a server, I certainly don't want to do it in the environment I code in every day (java enterprise). So, this product scratches my own itch, I just want to code a web application, that's it!
- ruler88 10y ago
  I don't mean to break your balls, I think this is a great concept. But I think with what you were saying "don't waste your time admining servers". There are many PaaS products these days that help you with that. You can get a heroku server up and running in just a few minutes. I guess what I'm wondering is: why would I go with you instead of heroku?
  - marktangotango 10y ago
    Please break away, that's the best feedback I've gotten. Honestly I think what you're saying has a lot of merit, and given that I'm not getting much traction with this project at all, I think a lot of people feel the same way. My question for you, what could this or a similar service offer to make you choose it over Heroku for example? I'll add I think there's an opportunity for price reduction with the hosted single page app concept I'm promoting, $5 a month for an aws t1 micro (for 3 year reserve) vs $5 a year for a solution like Lite Engine.
    - ruler88 10y ago
      I personally wouldn't trade the stability of aws/heroku for $5 difference a month. I do think the opportunity is available for making the process easier for specific technology stack. For example, I used Meteor's galaxy hosting platform 'cause it works so nicely with Meteor applications. And it is so simple to do, the toolbelt makes it so that it is literally a one-line command line to configure and deploy. And I know that it JUST WORKS, I don't need to worry about nuisances of Meteor hosting. What if something like this exists for say React? The JS tools fatigue is drowning all React devs. If you can make something that is super simple for say webpack deployment. That would be sweet! I'd pay a premium for that convenience and knowledge that I'm not doing something stupid.
      - marktangotango 10y ago
        But Lite Engine is running on AWS! For your react example, for Lite Engine, to deploy a react/webpack frontend application, you'd build it, zip it, and upload it. There are lots of static file hosting soluttions around now (github pages, bit balloon, etc) so I'm not sure what you have in mind there. I think ultimately, the message I'd like to convey is, 'it' doesn't have to be that hard to deploy a single page app. This is heresy to many :) Thanks again for the feedback I really do appreciate it!

by ruler88 10y ago

marktangotango 10y ago

One slogan I've thinking about is "Develop websites, don't waste your time admining servers". Me personally, I've been coding professionally for a long time, I have always had lots of ideas, but the last thing I want to do with my limited free time is setup a server, I certainly don't want to do it in the environment I code in every day (java enterprise). So, this product scratches my own itch, I just want to code a web application, that's it!

ruler88 10y ago
I don't mean to break your balls, I think this is a great concept. But I think with what you were saying "don't waste your time admining servers". There are many PaaS products these days that help you with that. You can get a heroku server up and running in just a few minutes. I guess what I'm wondering is: why would I go with you instead of heroku?
- marktangotango 10y ago
  Please break away, that's the best feedback I've gotten. Honestly I think what you're saying has a lot of merit, and given that I'm not getting much traction with this project at all, I think a lot of people feel the same way. My question for you, what could this or a similar service offer to make you choose it over Heroku for example? I'll add I think there's an opportunity for price reduction with the hosted single page app concept I'm promoting, $5 a month for an aws t1 micro (for 3 year reserve) vs $5 a year for a solution like Lite Engine.
  - ruler88 10y ago
    I personally wouldn't trade the stability of aws/heroku for $5 difference a month. I do think the opportunity is available for making the process easier for specific technology stack. For example, I used Meteor's galaxy hosting platform 'cause it works so nicely with Meteor applications. And it is so simple to do, the toolbelt makes it so that it is literally a one-line command line to configure and deploy. And I know that it JUST WORKS, I don't need to worry about nuisances of Meteor hosting. What if something like this exists for say React? The JS tools fatigue is drowning all React devs. If you can make something that is super simple for say webpack deployment. That would be sweet! I'd pay a premium for that convenience and knowledge that I'm not doing something stupid.
    - marktangotango 10y ago
      But Lite Engine is running on AWS! For your react example, for Lite Engine, to deploy a react/webpack frontend application, you'd build it, zip it, and upload it. There are lots of static file hosting soluttions around now (github pages, bit balloon, etc) so I'm not sure what you have in mind there. I think ultimately, the message I'd like to convey is, 'it' doesn't have to be that hard to deploy a single page app. This is heresy to many :) Thanks again for the feedback I really do appreciate it!